Re: How do you choose which types of APIs to use in COBOL program??

Adrienne,

In the Information Center 'Unix-type APIs' I found the following which 
looks helpful:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/apis/Unixapiex.htm

About one-third the way down is a section titled 'Example in ILE COBOL: 
Using the Integrated File System'

HTH,
Michael Quigley
AS/400 Programming Coordinator
The Way International
www.TheWay.org

cobol400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/12/2006 01:00:02 PM:

> date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:07:19 -0500
> from: "Adrienne McConnon" <Adrienne.McConnon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: [COBOL400-L] How do you choose which types of API's to use in
>    COBOL   program??
> 
> Hello everyone!
> 
> I have a question - I would like to know how to determine which api's to
> use on the iSeries in COBOL?  HFS, IFS, etc?  I will be reading/writing
> to application log files (stream) and I will need to create the file(s)
> internally within the COBOL program - Also I will need to recognize the
> delivery/existence of files.  All of this will be occurring in x time
> intervals using the sleep API.  Currently I am testing with the API's in
> the C++ manual - but the write is giving me strange results.  It does
> write a record to the end of the file, but it is not the fixed record
> size as in the rest of the file and it is garbage ridden beyond the end
> of the record. 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Adrienne